James Leslie Wanklyn

John Stroyan
Born 14 April 1860
Holdenhurst, Hampshire
Died 16 September 1919(1919-09-16) (aged 59)
Lanrick Castle, Doune
Education Northampton
Occupation Politician

James Leslie Wanklyn (14 April 1860 – 6 July 1919) was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bradford Central, elected at the 1895 general election[1] and again at the following general election in 1900[1] He did not stand at the 1906 election.

Biography

Wanklyn was born in 1860 in Holdenhurst, Hampshire,[2] to James Hibbert Wanklyn and Elizabeth Wanklyn (neé Leslie).[3]

Wanklyn had numerous sporting interests. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, for whom he played one match in 1885,[2] and an early leading member, from its inception in 1894, of the Ranelagh Club, noted as a polo and golf centre.[4]

He died on 6 July 1919[5] in Northampton.[2]

Family

In August 1898, he married Laura Mary Stapylton (her first husband, Huntly Bacon, died in June 1897).[6]

References

  1. 1 2 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
    - The Liberal Year Book, 1907
    - Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  2. 1 2 3 James Wanklyn at espncricinfo.com
  3. ↑ james Wanklyn at myheritage.com
  4. ↑ T. F. Dale, The Classic Guide to Polo first published 1905; later published by Amberley Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781445648668
  5. ↑ "Re JAMES LESLIE WANKLYN, Deceased.". The London Gazette, 16 September 1919
  6. ↑ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume. p. 99.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Rt Hon. George John Shaw-Lefevre		 Member of Parliament for Bradford Central
1895 – 1906 		Succeeded by
Sir George Scott Robertson
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